New Releases for March 11 2025

CALIGULA (1979) (ULTIMATE CUT)

Uncut and new Ultimate version of this controversial film. Caligula is a 1979 erotic historical drama film focusing on the rise and fall of the Roman Emperor Caligula. It is the only feature film produced by the men's magazine Penthouse. Producer Bob Guccione, the magazine's founder, intended to produce an explicit pornographic film with a feature film narrative and high production values. He also cast Penthouse Pets as extras in unsimulated sex scenes filmed during post-production by himself and Giancarlo Lui.

Caligula: The Ultimate Cut includes the addition of a prologue that illustrates one of Vidal's missing scenes, created by graphic artist Dave McKean, and there is a new wraparound score by composer Troy Sterling Nies. While the reconstruction was heralded by actor McDowell, in keeping with the film's tumultuous 45-year journey, it was disavowed last year by director Brass. (4K ULTRA HD)

THIEF (1981) (Criterion Collection)

The contemporary American auteur Michael Mann’s bold artistic sensibility was already fully formed when he burst out of the gate with Thief, his debut feature. James Caan stars, in one of his most riveting performances, as a no-nonsense ex-con professional thief planning to leave the criminal world behind after one last score—but he discovers that escape is not as simple as he’d hoped. Finding hypnotic beauty in neon and rain-slick streets, sparks and steel, Thief effortlessly established the moody stylishness, tactile approach, and drama that would also define such later iconic Mann films as Heat, The Insider, Ali, and The Last of the Mohicans. (BLU-RAY + 4K)

QUACKSER FORTUNE HAS A COUSIN IN THE BRONX (1970)

Reminiscent of Harold & Maude and Start the Revolution Without Me, Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx is a gentle comedy about the story of a man out of step with this world, marching to the beat of his own drum. Quackser Fortune (Gene Wilder) earns his living by following the horse-drawn delivery wagons of Dublin, scooping up the droppings and selling it as fertilizer. Margot Kidder is the American exchange student who finds herself drawn to this unlearned, but not unknowing man. (DVD and BLU-RAY)

DIRTY ANGELS (2024)

When a terrorist group invades an international girls' school in Pakistan, and seeks $10 million a head for a hostage group including diplomats' daughters, combat veteran Jake (Eva Green) is tasked with leading an all-woman black ops team on a perilous assignment of infiltration and extraction. (DVD)

PARK LANES (2015) 

Park Lanes is a film that depicts the workaday routine of a factory in Virginia. It is a durational work, eight hours in length, experienced in real time. The title refers to the name of the Mansfield, Ohio bowling alley frequented by the filmmaker and his family. (BLU-RAY)